May is ‘Women for Obama Month’

President Obama’s Iowa reelection campaign today announced May as ‘Women for Obama Month.’

Organizers will hold events across the state highlighting the President’s record on issues important to Iowa women and why Mitt Romney is the wrong choice for women, the group said today.

“The choice America’s women face in this election is becoming clearer every day. President Obama has always stood by women. He knows that women aren’t a special interest group – they are America’s mothers, daughters, sisters and wives,” said Rep. Sharon Steckman, D-Mason City.

Here’s part of a memo the group sent today contrasting the President with Romney:

President Barack Obama

When he took office, we were losing 750,000 jobs a month and facing the worst recession of our lifetimes. Since the President’s policies took effect, America’s businesses have created 4.1 million jobs over the last 25 months, and women have filled nearly 1.2 million of them.

As part of the Affordable Care Act, starting August 1st, many insurance plans will be required to fully cover birth control without co-pays or deductibles as part of women’s preventive care. This step will help more women make health care decisions based on what’s best for them—not their insurance company—and could save them hundreds of dollars every year.

Thanks to unprecedented new guidelines in the Affordable Care Act, women will have access to a wide range of preventive health services—mammograms, cervical cancer screenings, and soon birth control—without a co-pay or deductible. The Affordable Care Act will also prevent insurance companies from discriminating against women so that being a woman is no longer considered a pre-existing condition, and prevent insurance companies from charging women higher insurance premiums.

On day one in office, President Obama leveled the playing field when he fought for and signed into law the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act, which gives women additional tools to fight for equal pay.

If women doubted Mitt Romney was extreme on women’s issues, just take a look at his record, who he’s been campaigning with and their positions:

Romney Would Threaten Women’s Health Care and Health Choices: Romney’s threat to repeal the President’s landmark health reforms would take us back to the days when health insurance companies had unchecked power to refuse to cover women with pre-existing conditions like breast cancer or diabetes, cancel women’s health policies if they got sick, deny them coverage, or charge women more than men simply because of their gender.

Romney Has Not Presented Any Ideas for Getting Women Back To Work Now:Private- sector job creation has restarted for both women and men, both of whom have benefited from 25 consecutive months of private sector job growth during which American businesses have created more than 4 million new jobs. But Romney’s economic plans lack any proposals for creating jobs now and building on the current recovery.